As we inch ever closer to prohibiting people from smoking in their own homes, people who care about liberty may wonder what those who push this stuff will go after when they wipe out smoking altogether.
"Smokers who dine at Los Angeles' many open-air restaurants could soon lose the right to light up under a proposal being reviewed today by a City Council committee."
"The council's Arts, Parks, Health and Aging Committee will meet this afternoon to consider a plan by Councilman Greig Smith to bar smoking within five feet of any restaurant table on a sidewalk, in an outdoor courtyard or on an exterior patio."
And don't forget the feeding frenzy on taxpayer wallets when a full tobacco ban eliminates the magic tobacco tax.
2 comments:
Where were you when the issue was about growing marijuana and smoking it in your home?
Marijuana is the most benign of licit and illicit substances. No one has ever died from smoking marijuana nor gotten lung cancer from smoking it.
You sat mute as a doorknob when this liberty was being taken away by the federal government under the guise of a war on drugs. Now the same thing is happening to those who want to smoke tobacco, a dangerous, cancer-causing licit drug.
You're hypocrisy and selectivity in your support of liberty issues reeks to the high heavens. You want to limit liberty to other but not for yourselves for a cause you care about.
I wrote this about the war on drugs three years ago.
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